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11 July 2012

To print these phrases on a business card using Microsoft Word, you can use this file formatted for use with standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of blank business card stock that you can buy at an office supply store. The stock should have 2” x 3 1/2” cards with 10 to the page. Select business card stock suited for your type of printer (laser, ink-jet, etc.). The font used in the Word file is Times New Roman 12 point.

You can print your personal information or your meeting’s information (or anything else) on the back. To create text to print on the back, use your word processor or desk layout program. Many word processors come with templates for business cards. Look for the instructions included with the business card stock.

Instructions for Microsoft Word 2007 (and later): Select Mailings, then Labels. Select Options. Next to Label vendors, select Avery US Letter. Scroll through the list of label numbers until you find #8371 (or simply type the number in the box). Or choose the maker and # for the business card stock you purchased. This will give you the spacing you need. Click on OK. Click on New Document. Type and format your text in the first block; check for typos and spacing, then copy and paste it into all the rectangles. Double-check for spacing. Print.

Representative Meeting

23 April 2012

Categories: Events and Opportunities

Jump to 2025 Meeting Information

LEYM holds a Representative Meeting in the spring to handle business that has arisen since the previous Annual Sessions and to consider and season matters for the next Annual Sessions. Representative Meeting may make decisions concerning any matter except those specifically reserved for Annual Sessions (see Policies & Procedures Manual), and may forward any matter to Annual Sessions with a recommendation.

Monthly Meetings are encouraged to have at least two people from their MFW in attendance so that at least a few Friends from each meeting will attend, participate, and report back. A representative comes with knowledge about his or her meeting and its concerns, but is not bound by instructions. Representatives need to be open to the leadings of the Spirit, just as they would be in any Quaker business meeting. Members of standing committees and officers of the yearly meeting are expected to attend. In addition, any member or attender within LEYM who wishes may participate.

2025 Representative Meeting: March 8 in Pittsburgh
See Registration Flyer Here

Representative Meeting is about Representation. Join us virtually OR in person for a hybrid meeting on Saturday, March 8. The meeting will be held at the Pittsburgh Friends Meetinghouse at 4836 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. In the morning, there will be opportunities for Friends from ALL LEYM Monthly Meetings to have Face to Face conversations in groups or committees to talk about monthly or yearly meeting issues. Whether or not you “officially” represent your monthly meeting, you are welcome to participate. While we may not be able to provide a virtual connection for morning small groups, we welcome your participation. Morning Meeting for Worship and afternoon Meeting for Worship with attention to business WILL BE hybrid. See Schedule below. Registration flyer is here (please respond by Feb 22nd).

Zoom Access: https://tinyurl.com/5yuvkb85

Meeting ID: 470 962 3265 Password: 7R34Lq

Schedule for Friday, March 7 Executive Meeting

6:30 pm – Supper
7:15 pm – Executive Committee Business Meeting

Schedule for Saturday, March 8, 2025

9:00-9:30 am Simple Breakfast
9:30-10:00 Meeting for Worship
10:00-10:15 Greetings and Announcements
10:15-10:45 Tour and Presentation regarding changes to the Pittsburgh Meetinghouse
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Presentation and Discussion of A&O slide show on LEYM
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:30 Committee Meetings/Extended Lunch Break
1:30-4:00 Meeting for Business (see draft agenda)

Looking through the doorway at the March 2023 Representative Meeting with Remote Participants

The Amazing Dessert Table at Representative Meeting

See below for a general description of what Rep Meeting is all about.

Representative meeting in Toledo Ohio as seen from behind the clerk's table. — 2012 Representative Meeting in Toledo, Ohio

What It Is

LEYM holds a Representative Meeting in the spring to handle business that has arisen since the previous Annual Sessions and to consider and season matters for the next Annual Sessions. Representative Meeting may make decisions concerning any matter except those specifically reserved for Annual Sessions (see Policies & Procedures Manual), and may forward any matter to Annual Sessions with a recommendation.

Who Attends

Participants at 2012 LEYM Representatives Meeting

Meetings are asked to appoint two representatives so that at least a few Friends from each meeting will attend, participate, and report back. A representative comes with knowledge about his or her meeting and its concerns, but is not bound by instructions. Representatives need to be open to the leadings of the Spirit, just as they would be in any Quaker business meeting. Members of standing committees and officers of the yearly meeting are expected to attend. In addition, any member or attender within LEYM who wishes may participate.

When and Where it is Held

LEYM’s Clerk sets the time and place for Representative Meeting. Currently, it is held on a Saturday at the end of March or beginning of April. It is hosted by different monthly meetings different years. If your meeting is interested in hosting the next one, please contact the Yearly Meeting Clerk.

LEYM Resources for Meetings & Worship Groups

19 April 2012

- Contact information for Meeting Clerks & Worship Group Conveners
- For a map, list, and information for all meetings and worship groups within LEYM, use the “Meetings & WGs” tab at the top of most pages.
- There is an e-mail list for LEYM monthly meeting clerks and worship group conveners. It is updated every summer based on the information in each group’s Annual Statistical Report. If you have taken over as clerk or convener, let the Digital Communications Facilitator know. You will be added to the e-mail list.
- To publicize a meeting event or share your news with other Friends in LEYM, send a brief notice to the Digital Communications Facilitator. A form has been developed to make collecting and sharing event information easier for all. See it at the LEYM Event Planning Page.
  - The Digital Communications Facilitator (DCF) will post it and it will appear in the right column of the Home page in the recent posts section, and an e-mail will be sent to everyone who has signed up to receive news posts. (To sign yourself up, use the “Subscribe” form at the bottom of the homepage.)
  - If desired, the DCF can send an e-mail to meeting clerks, worship group conveners, and meeting representatives.
- LEYM Print Resources for meetings and worship groups
- Earlham School of Religion faculty can provide leadership for workshops, retreats, visioning sessions, and seminars as part of ESR’s Traveling Ministries program.
- Also check out the links to Other Quaker Websites

List of Information requested annually from monthly meetings and worship groups

Information Request	You should receive by	Due Date	Send to
Response to Annual Queries (optional)	beginning of September	Jan 15	Clerk of Ministry & Nurture
State of the Meeting Report	—	April 30	Clerk of Ministry & Nurture
Statistical Report	May	July 15	Database Manager
Memorial Minutes (if any)	—	August 26	Clerk of Publications & Archives

About the annual queries
Suggested Guidelines for the State of the Meeting Report
About the Annual Statistical Report
About Memorial Minutes

LEYM Bulletins

30 January 2012

Fall Bulletin due date for submissions September 15
Winter Bulletin due date for submissions January 15
Spring Bulletin due date is March 15 (to prep for June Annual Meeting)

The files below go back to 2000. Click here to go the Archives, which contain the earliest Bulletins, starting in 1961.

The Bulletins are saved as PDF files.

Spring 2025 62, Issue 3 (most recent)
Winter 2025 62, Issue 2
Fall 2024 62, Issue 1
Spring 2024 61, Issue 3
Winter 2024 61, Issue 2
Fall 2023 Lightning Edition
Spring 2023 60, Issue 3
Winter 2023 60, Issue 2
Fall 2022 60, Issue 1
Spring 2022 59, Issue 3
Winter 2022 59, Issue 2
Fall 2021 59, Issue 1
Spring 2021 58, Issue 3
Winter 2021 58, Issue 2
Fall 2020 58, Issue 1
Spring 2020 57, Issue 3
Winter 2020 57, Issue 2
Fall 2019 57, Issue 1
Spring 2019 56, Issue 3
Winter 2019 56, Issue 2
Fall 2018 56, Issue 1
Spring 2018 55, Issue 3
- Schedule 2018 Annual Meeting
Winter 2018 55, Issue 2
Fall 2017 55, Issue 1
Spring 2017 54, Issue 3
Winter 2017 54, Issue 2
Fall 2016 LIV, Issue 1
Spring 2016 LIII, Issue 3
Winter 2016 LIII, Issue 2
Fall 2015 LIII, Issue 1
Spring 2015 LII, Issue 3
Winter 2015 LII, Issue 2
Fall 2014 LII, Issue 1
Spring 2014 LI, Issue 3
Winter 2014 LI, Issue 2
Fall 2013 LI, Issue 1
Spring 2013 L, Issue 3
Winter 2013 L, Issue 2
Fall 2012 L, Issue 1
Spring 2012 XLIX, Issue 3
Winter 2012
Fall 2011 XLIX, Issue 1
Spring 2011 XLVIII, Issue 3
Winter 2011 XLVIII, Issue 2
Fall 2010 XLVIII, Issue 1
Spring 2010 XLVII, Issue 3
Winter 2010 XLVII, Issue 2
Fall 2009 XLVII, Issue 1
Spring 2009 XLVI, Issue 3
Winter 2009 XLVI, Issue 2
Fall 2008 XLVI, Issue 1
Spring 2008 XLV, Issue 3
Winter 2008 XLV, Issue 2
Fall 2007 XLV, Issue 1
Spring 2007 XLIV, Issue 3
Winter 2007 XLIV, Issue 2
Fall 2006 XLIV, Issue 1
Spring 2006 XLIII, Issue 3
Winter 2006 XLIII, Issue 2
Fall 2005 XXXXIII, Issue 1
Spring 2005 XXXXII, Issue 3
Winter 2005 XXXXII, Issue 2
Fall 2004 XXXXII, Issue 1
Spring 2004 XXXXI, Issue 3
Winter 2004 XXXXI, Issue 2
Fall 2003 XXXXI, Issue 1
Spring 2003 XXXX, Issue 3
Winter 2003 XXXX, Issue 2
Fall 2002 XXXX, Issue 1
Spring 2002 XXXIX, Issue 3
Winter 2002 XXXIX, Issue 2
Fall 2001 XXXIX, Issue 1
Spring 2001 XXXVIII, Issue 4
Winter 2001 XXXVIII, Issue 3
Summer 2000 XXXVIII, Issue 1

Archives: the earliest Bulletins, starting in 1961

About LEYM

27 October 2011

About Lake Erie Yearly Meeting

Lake Erie Yearly Meeting (LEYM) began in 1939 as an association of Friends meetings in Ohio, Michigan, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It is currently made up of 20 local congregations, called monthly meetings. There are also a number of informal worship groups within LEYM. It is affiliated with Friends General Conference (FGC), a Quaker service organization for unprogrammed Friends in the U.S.

LEYM currently publishes a newsletter, the LEYM Bulletin, three times a year.

LEYM holds an annual meeting for four days in July for inspiration and fellowship, with business meetings for consideration of basic policies, committee reports, and responses to concerns brought by committees, and the naming of officers, representatives to Friends’ organizations, and committees.

LEYM seeks to appoint representatives to the following Quaker organizations: American Friends Service Committee; Friends Committee on National Legislation; Quaker Earthcare Witness; Friends General Conference; Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns; Friends World Committee on Consultation; William Penn House; Olney Friends School; Wilmington Yearly Meeting; Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative); Canadian Yearly Meeting; Evangelical Friends International – Eastern Region.

A Representative Meeting is held on a weekend in the spring for committee meetings and to prepare the work of the annual meeting.

At present, the following standing committees are active: Advancement & Outreach, Arrangements & Site, Finance & Budget, High School Youth Program, Ministry & Nurture, Nominating, Program, Publications & Archives, and Youth & Children. A part-time Digital Communications Facilitator and a part-time Database Manager help to maintain the services provided to participants.

Eight monthly meetings and four worship groups in lower Michigan form a regional organization within LEYM called Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting. GPQM has oversight of the Michigan Friends Center in Chelsea, Michigan, and financial and interactive relationships with the Michigan Area office of the American Friends Service Committee in Ann Arbor.

LEYM History

A short narrative history of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting is available:

2018 LEYM History and Description (PDF)

LEYM Chronology

A more detailed chronology of our annual meetings over the years is available:

LEYM Chronology through 2018 (PDF)

LEYM members at a work day for Habitat for Humanity in Lima, Ohio, in 2013

Previous Annual Queries

25 October 2011

Each year, LEYM’s Ministry and Nurture Committee prepares a set of queries and readings for the consideration of monthly meetings and worship groups. This practice began in 1985. The queries from 2001-2019 appear here. To see the most recent query, check this page.

Open a document with the queries (PDF)

2019

The world we live in can leave many of us with broken hearts. We turn to one another in our meetings, in worship and in friendship. Let us rest in the Light. What are we finding there?

2018

As we face ongoing degradation of our planet and the general lack of political will to address this, we ask: What are the connections we experience between earthcare and our traditional Quaker concerns for peace and justice? How do we use spiritual guidance to respond with a sense of abundance and hope?

2017

How might we support each other as we find peaceful and persistent responses to actions that exclude and judge?

In what ways do we, as Quakers, hold ourselves and the Other in the Light when our disagreements seem insurmountable?

How do we find common ground as we listen to those with whom we disagree?

2016
Meetings have a welcoming message, whether they know it or not. What is
yours?

2015

For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; I was naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.
– Matthew 25:35-36, Jerusalem Bible

How might our meeting support individuals and the meeting as a whole in working to increase racial justice within our world? In what ways do we as a Meeting recognize white privilege in our own Meeting? What tools and practices do we use to foster awareness of our personal and corporate biases?

2014

Friends find their essential unity in their profound and exhilarating belief in the pervasive presence of God and in the continuing responsibility of each person and worshipping group to seek the leading of the Spirit in all things.
Faith and Practice of New England Yearly Meeting, 1986

How has our practice of expectant waiting in worship invited the Divine to guide our meeting’s actions? In what ways do our actions in the world as a meeting enrich and transform the spiritual life of the body?

2013

How is Spirit present in building our community? What contributes to loving connections within our meeting? Is our meeting a place of safety in which Friends feel they can be heard? In what ways do we come together, opening ourselves to God’s love, grace, and forgiveness? Do we pause and feel blessed by the Divine? Can we find ways to continue to faithfully engage each other, even in the midst of conflict? When connections appear to be impaired, what Quaker resources might be used to prepare us for listening to God?

2012

• Has our Meeting sought the guidance of the Spirit about the future life of our Meeting?

• What changes do we need to consider? Do we regard children and youth as being integral to the spiritual life of the Meeting? How may we offer support to families in our Meeting?

• How might we, as a Meeting, use a process of discernment to find a path into the next couple of decades?

2011

2011LEYMQuery

• Given the physical and spiritual state of our Meeting, what are our reflections on this information?

• What does a Spirit led Meeting look and feel like?

• What hinders us from following the spirit?

• What is the Spirit leading us to do?

2010

Friends traditionally have used queries to deepen spiritual lives, confront difficult questions, and encourage corporate and individual self examination.

How does your monthly meeting use queries?
How do you as an individual use queries?
Do the proposed LEYM Advices and Queries support these uses? How are they useful? How are they not? How can they be improved upon?
Has one or more of these proposed LEYM Advices and Queries profoundly affected you or your meeting?

2009

• What experiences have you had of wonder and awe?
• What experiences have you had of the Light or the Divine?

• What helps you open yourself to these experiences and what gets in the way?
• What practices do you have to deepen these experiences?

• How do we support each other in this awareness?
• How do we support our children in their spiritual journeys?

2008

Are we open to the Other?
What keeps me/us from connecting with those who are different from me/us?
What fears cloud my/our vision of the Light in all beings?
How can I listen with my heart, willing to be vulnerable?
How are we teaching our children that God’s love includes all?

2007

• Do we keep our lives uncluttered by things and activities?
• What conditions of our lives overwhelm us?
• How may our habits and addictions be caused by things such as media, social expectations, or personal shortcomings?
• Do we accept commitments beyond our strength and light?
• How can we center our lives each day in awareness of the Light so that all things take their rightful place?

Read some of the responses to the 2007 Query on Simplicity via this link.

2006

On Discernment

1. What do I understand “divine guidance” and “discernment” to mean?

2. How do I experience divine guidance and discernment in my life and in our life as a Meeting?

3. What are we, as Friends, being called to do or to be in the world at this time?

2005

In what ways has the Living Presence awakened my faith and turned me around?

As a Meeting how do we support each other in being faithful?

2005 Being Turned and Being Faithful: What Our Meetings Say (pdf)

2004

On Earthcare – text not available

2003

1. What moves me to live with integrity? When do I have difficulty in witnessing to truth? What gets in the way or blocks my being able to be faithful to this testimony?

2. How does our Meeting live in the life and the power to find wholeness, where we are responsible to one another and to our broader community?

2002

Our Peace Testimony

1. How do I live “in the virtue of that life and power that [takes] away the occasion of all wars?”

2. How do I and my Meeting community witness to the peace testimony and work to build institutions of peace?

3. Do I consider that paying for war is a form of participation in war? What are our alternatives to paying for war?

4. How do I maintain my testimony to peace when a mood of war and violence prevails in the land?

2001

What are the essentials in Quakerism with which all members need to agree?

Which deep elements in our tradition are crucial to remember?

What are the responsibilities of being a Meeting member?

How do we encourage and support regular attenders to consider becoming members?

LEYM Chronology

23 October 2011

Year	Location	Clerks	Comments
1939	Cleveland		Great Lakes Regional Meeting organized
1940	Ann Arbor (Lane Hall)
1941	Columbus
1942	Pittsburgh		“Fourth Annual Great Lakes Regional Conference, New and United Meetings”
1943	(no record found)
1944	Cleveland
1945	(no record found)
1946	(no record found)
1947	Patterson Lake, MI (Ann Arbor-Detroit)
1948	Camp Wise (Cleveland-Oberlin)
1949	Delaware (Columbus)
1950	Camp Lutherlyn (Pittsburgh)
1951	Green Pastures (Ann Arbor-Detroit)
1952	Hiram House Camp (Cleveland)	Winthrop Leeds	FWCC–Oxford, England; Sheldon and Lucy Clark, Dick McCoy, Dorothy Kinsey, Ruth Hyde
1953	Columbus
1954	Camp Lutherlyn (Pittsburgh)
1955	Green Pastures (Ann Arbor-Detroit)	Martin Cobin	FWCC Statement of “Objectives and Organization of the Lake Erie Association” adopted
1956	Friends Boarding School, Barnesville	Bill Bliss	Sunday dinner cost 85¢
1957	Wilmington College	Isabel Bliss
1958	Friends Boarding School	Bernard Gross	FWCC–Bad Pyrmont, Germ.; Florence Shute, Bill Preis. Budget 1958-59: $475
1959	Wilmington College	Dick Stow
1960	Camp Mary Orton (N. Columbus)	William Johnson
1961	Friends Boarding School	Howard Harris	LEYM Bulletin started. Elise Boulding, first editor. FWCC–Kenya; Margaret Utterbeck, Winifred Crossman
1962	Wilmington and Waynesville (with Indiana YM)	Bob Blood
1963	Friends Boarding School	Bob Blood	Lake Erie Yearly Meeting formed within Lake Erie Association
1964	Wilmington College	Howard McKinney	FWCC–Ireland; Bill and Isabel Bliss. Pittsburgh joins LEYM. Delaware first new Monthly Meeting in LEYM
1965	Malone College, Canton, OH	Howard McKinney	Kent becomes MM. Oberlin joins LEYM. Cleveland joins both LEYM and Ohio (Cons.) YM
1966	Wilmington College	Esther Ewald	Adopted statement urging U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam
1967	Olney Friends School (Friends Boarding School)	Esther Ewald	LEYM affiliated with FGC. FWCC–Guilford; Rilma Buckman, Helen Healy
1968	Bluffton College	Flora McKinney	Approved minute opposing conscription
1969	Bluffton College	Flora McKinney	“Association” dropped from name. Ground broken for Friends School in Detroit’s permanent building
1970	Bluffton College	Flora McKinney	FWCC–Sweden; Flora and Howard McKinney, Bill Bliss
1971	Bluffton College	Flora McKinney
1972	Ann Arbor	Rilma Buckman
1973	Olney Friends School	Rilma Buckman	FWCC–Sydney, Australia; Paul Reagan, Dorothy Bower
1974	Hiram College	Rilma Buckman	Broadmead accepted as MM
1975	Hiram College	Ralph Liske	Procedures of LEYM adopted
1976	Hiram College	Ralph Liske	FWCC–Hamilton, Ontario
1977	Hiram College	Ralph Liske
1978	Hiram College	Ralph Liske	Membership passed 1000. Budget reached $4000.
1979	Hiram College	Sam Prellwitz	FWCC–Gwatt, Switzerland; Benton Meeks, Evelyn Culver
1980	Hiram College	Sam Prellwitz
1981	Olney Friends School	Sam Prellwitz, Claire Davis
1982	Defiance College	Claire Davis, Sam Prellwitz	FWCC–Kenya; Marybeth Neal, Joe Davis
1983	Olney Friends School	Claire Davis, Isabel Bliss
1984	Defiance College	Isabel Bliss, Claire Davis
1985	Olney Friends School	Isabel Bliss, Dick Taylor	FWCC–Mexico; Thomas Taylor
1986	Defiance College	Dick Taylor, Isabel Bliss
1987	Olney Friends School	Dick Taylor, Clémence Ravaçon-Mershon
1988	Bluffton College	Clémence Ravaçon- Mershon, Dick Taylor	FWCC–Tokyo; Jean Stuntz, Terry Landoll
1989	Olney Friends School	Clémence Ravaçon-Mershon, Marty Grundy
1990	Bluffton College	Marty Grundy, Clémence Ravaçon-Mershon
1991	Olney Friends School	Marty Grundy, Pat Campbell	FWCC World Conf. – Netherlands, Honduras, Kenya. Claire Davis, Patricia Thomas, John Musgrave, Clémence Ravaçon-Mershon, Dick Taylor
1992	Olney Friends School	Pat Campbell, Marty Grundy
1993	Bluffton College	Pat Campbell, Damon Hickey
1994	Bluffton College	Damon Hickey, Pat Campbell	FWCC–Albuquerque, NM; Rosemary Coffey, Joyce Balderston
1995	Bluffton College	Damon Hickey, John Howell	Adopted LEYM Policies and Procedures
1996	Bluffton College	Damon Hickey, John Howell
1997	Bluffton College	John Howell, Damon Hickey	FWCC–Birmingham, Eng.; R. Coffey (repl. Rosemary Lore), Merry Stanford
1998	Bluffton College	John Howell, Janet Smith
1999	Bluffton College	Janet Smith, John Howell
2000	Bluffton College	Janet Smith, Don Nagler	FWCC–Geneva Point, NH; Beth Joy Blackbird, Richard Lee. First Annual Records published in booklet form
2001	Bluffton College	Don Nagler, Janet Smith	Commemorated on the web in photos by Bill Hummon with Plenary Address by Marty Grundy: Some Thoughts on the Relationship between an Individual and the Meeting
2002	Bluffton College	Don Nagler, Sally Weaver Sommer
2003	Bluffton College	Sally Weaver Sommer, Don Nagler
2004	Bluffton College	Sally Weaver Sommer, Michael Fuson	FWCC–Auckland, NZ; Zig Dermer, Margaret Kanost
2005	Bluffton University	Michael Fuson, Sally Weaver Sommer
2006	Bluffton University	Michael Fuson, Shirley Bechill
2007	Bluffton University	Shirley Bechill, Michael Fuson	First Adult Young Friends Group. FWCC–Dublin, Ireland; Raelyn Joyce, Mike Hinshaw
2008	Bluffton University	Shirley Bechill, Merry Stanford	Holland accepted as MM
2009	Bluffton University	Merry Stanford, Shirley Bechill	Scholarships assist first-time attenders
2010	Bluffton University	Merry Stanford, Peggy Daub	Family attendance encouraged by meeting later in summer and no charge for young Friends (through age 18)
2011	Bluffton University	Peggy Daub, Merry Stanford	Presentations and entertainment offered from within LEYM
2012	Bluffton University	Peggy Daub, Rebecca Morehouse	High School retreat held at and during Annual Sessions.
2013	Bluffton University	Peggy Daub, Sally Weaver Sommer	50th Anniversary celebration. Work camp held before Annual Meeting.
2014	Bluffton University	Sally Weaver Sommer, Peggy Daub	Three-day work camp in Detroit preceding Annual Meeting
2015	Bluffton University	Sally Weaver Sommer, Mike Holaday	Plenary Address: Unconventional Joy: The Scandalous Ministry of Befriending, by Merry Stanford
2016	Bluffton University	Mike Holaday, Sally Weaver Sommer	FWCC – World Plenary in Pisac, Peru; Jana Norlin, C. Ravacon-Mershon attending.
2017	Bluffton University	Mike Holaday, [none]	Plenary address and three workshops presented by young adult Friends.
2018	Bluffton University	Nancy Reeves, Mike Holaday	Plenary address by Yvette Shipman, Steps to “green” Annual Meeting meals.
2019	Bluffton University	Nancy Reeves, Jo Posti	Plenary address by Joyce Ajlouny, Harassment Policy approved.
2020	Virtual (Zoom)	Jo Posti, Nancy Reeves	Covid-19 pandemic necessitated online meeting.
2021	Virtual (Zoom)	Jo Posti, Susan Loucks	Plenary address by Paula Palmer: From Truth to Healing with Native Peoples
2022	Virtual (Zoom)	Susan Loucks, Jo Posti	Theme “Many Roots, One Tree” interwoven throughout sessions. Plenary address by Christian Acemah, Head of Olney Friends School.
2023	Ashland University, Ashland Ohio and Virtual (Zoom)	Susan Loucks, [none]	Theme “Navigating Anew” apt for new location. Plenary address by Emily Provance. 60th anniversary.

Spiritual Formation Retreats

29 September 2011

Spiritual Formation Program (Learn More)

A Sampler of Spiritual Disciplines

LEYM Fall 2025 Spiritual Formation retreat
“Where Next on My (Spiritual) Journey?”
September 12-14, 2025 Weber Center in Adrian, Michigan

Get 2025-26 Brochure

Register Now

The spiritual formation committee is delighted that we will be back at the Weber Center in Adrian, Michigan for our fall spiritual formation retreat. We welcome all Friends throughout Lake Erie Yearly Meeting to join us. This year’s facilitator will be Michael Wajda, a Friend many of you might know. Please check out the 2025-26 retreat brochure for more information on Michael and on the content and structure of the retreat.

Weber Center is situated on 100 acres of wooded land on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse in southeast Michigan. You can find more information about the center at https://webercenter.org/.

Weber Center has single and double rooms for sleeping, each with its own bathroom. There is a place on the registration form for you to check which room you prefer. The cost for the retreat, including room and meals, is $220 if you choose to room by yourself in a single room and $180 if you choose to room with a Friend in a double room. After August 20 the cost is $240 for a single room and $200 when sharing a double room.

LEYM’s spiritual formation program runs from September through May. It includes a fall retreat, nine months of meeting in local groups, and a closing retreat in the spring with a Zoom mid-year gathering in January. All members in pre-existing groups are encouraged to attend the retreats. And for those new to the program and not already in a group, new groups will be formed and offered at the fall retreat. You can find out more about LEYM’s spiritual formation program at https://leym.org/spiritual-formation-program-description/ or contact Sally Weaver Sommer at sallyweaversommer@gmail.com.

Prior Years

High School Teen Retreat Program Committee

23 September 2011

Clerk
Dave Avner
Email davavne at aol.com
412 361-8304

Teen Retreat Coordinator
Robb Yurisko
Email leymteenretreats at gmail.com
614 286 4829

Teen Retreats

The Wider Quaker World

22 May 2011

If you are interested in locating Friends outside of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting there are a couple of good web resources to get you started.

One is the directory known as QuakerFinder that is maintained by Friends General Conference.

The Friends World Committee on Consultation (FWCC) also provides tools to find Quakers across the ideological spectrum.

To learn more about Quakerism in general, check out our About Quakers section and our links to other Quaker sites.

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